SOME NOTES ON THE GENUS MYRMICA, LATK. 



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of the funiculus, and abruptly bent at the base. The funiculus is 

 short, and the club four-jointed. 



F., . Cj, 



Fig. 



Antenna; of M. lobicornis. 

 9. 5 . Fig. 10. cT 



Distribution. — North Europe (further south a mountain species), 

 ■eastwards to Central Asia. I have taken winged females in July and 

 males in July fnd August in the nests. 



Meinert'''' describes a mixed trontal gynandromorph. Morley'^'' 

 recorded a hermaphrodite in a sand-pit at Foxhall. I have not seen 

 "the specimen, so am unable to say if it is a gynandromorph. Rothney''' 

 records specimens in nests of Formica miujuinea at Shirley, and I have 

 several times found colonies under nests of that ant at Wey bridge. 



British distribution. — ENGLAND.— Somerset S., Hants. S., 

 Sussex E., Kent E., Surrey, Essex, Berks., Oxford, Suffolk E., Norfolk 

 E., Cheshire, Durham, Northumb. S., Cumberland. 



SCOTLAND.— Haddington, Edinburgh, Fife, Kinross, Perth S. 

 and Mid., Easterness, Ebudes Mid., Sutherland E. 



IRELAND.— Armagh. 



WALES. — Glamorgan, Carnarvon. 



The following Myrmecophiles have occurred with this species : — 

 P'oRMiciDJ-: : — lli/niiica iinjniiico.rena, Forel. ForeF" mentioned 

 small males and females of what he at first thought to be a curious 

 form of lnl)icur)iis which were taken in the nest of that ant by Bugnion 

 in the Alps. Subsequently'^^ he correctly described them as a new- 

 species of inquiline ant. 



DiPTERA : — P/iora fnrinicantin, Verrall. Hovering over the ants in 

 a colony at Weybridge {Dnnisthorpe'*^). 



6. Myrmica rubida, Latr. When staying with my friend Dr. Forel 

 in Switzerland last October, he showed me where Mi/niiit-a rubida, 

 Latr., was common, on the banks of the Rhone. It was a great pleasure 

 to see this fine large species alive. It is much larger than any 



" Vidensk. Sehk. Skrift., v., I,s60, p. 327. 



'•'* Entom., 1898, p. 13. 



''J Knt. Mo. M<ifl., xviii., 1882, p. 2(52, etc. 



'"0 Fourmis dc la Snis.se, 1874, pp. 78 and 79. 



*-! Verxum. D. Ndtiirf. Arzte. Wieii., 1894, p. 143. 



'•^ Ent. Rec, 1912, p. 36. 



